Linux-Hardware Digest #621, Volume #10 Tue, 29 Jun 99 03:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mouse Problems in X Windows ("Andrew J. Norman")
Re: Mouse Problems in X Windows ("Andrew J. Norman")
Re: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print ("Dan Shackelford")
Re: Voodoo Banshee SuSE 6.0 (the hork)
Re: Hauppauge WinTV-Theater works? ("Andy")
Re: Abit BP6 (dual Celeron) ATA66-Controller? ("Andrew J. Norman")
Re: Modem and kppp (SansAClue)
Re: support for radio ethernet (David Fox)
Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux? ("Binesh Bannerjee")
Re: Best modem for linux (David Fox)
Re: cmi8330 sound card (Norberto Di Carlo)
Re: PCI sound card setup ?'s (Joshua Martin)
Re: sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci) (the hork)
Re: Panasonic KXL-738A CDROM (Peter Christy)
Re: SuSe on Asus AMD K6-2 450Mhz 128K system (Peter Christy)
How to mount two floppy disk ? ("Mario Michaud")
ESS Maestro drivers? (Patrick Berge)
Re: Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who) (Johan Kullstam)
Problems with SuSE Linux 6.1 ("Brent Justice")
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mouse Problems in X Windows
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:20:18 GMT
Okay first off the "mouseconfig" utility (you using Redhat correct?) just
configures the Non-X part of your setup (e.g. gpm, and some symlinks)
To get X-windows to work correctly you will need to edit the XF86Config file
(ussually located in /etc/X11)
In the pointer section you need to set your protocol (if you are using a
Microsoft then try the "Microsoft" protocol)
Additionally you will need to specify the device (mouseconfig makes a symlink
from your port to /dev/mouse)
If you want to make the scroll buttons add a Z-axis command....In general the
pointer section should look something like:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Buttons 5
ZAxisMapping 4 5
This will work on most systems. If you need to additionaly "wake" the mouse up
then try your "--kickstart" flag (as that will direct gpm to wake it up)
ZzzZZz wrote:
> Every time I start up X Windows, it doesn't respond. I've looked into some
> FAQs and found out that because I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse (2 button
> mouse with the scrolling wheel in the middle) I need to type the following
> before starting X Windows:
>
> mouseconfig --kickstart --device cua0
>
> However, when I type that, X Windows still doesn't respond. Am I supposed to
> install or configure my mouse a certain way?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Z
--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
Henry V--Act 4 Scene 1
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mouse Problems in X Windows
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:22:15 GMT
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Opppss mis-spoke......Xconfigurator (not gpm) will probe the mouse and "wake"
it up if you use the "--kickstart" option on mouseconfig (see the man page for
details)
Sorry about the Confusion
ZzzZZz wrote:
> Every time I start up X Windows, it doesn't respond. I've looked into some
> FAQs and found out that because I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse (2 button
> mouse with the scrolling wheel in the middle) I need to type the following
> before starting X Windows:
>
> mouseconfig --kickstart --device cua0
>
> However, when I type that, X Windows still doesn't respond. Am I supposed to
> install or configure my mouse a certain way?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Z
--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
Henry V--Act 4 Scene 1
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Opppss mis-spoke......Xconfigurator (not gpm) will probe the
mouse and "wake" it up if you use the "--kickstart" option on mouseconfig
(see the man page for details)
<p>Sorry about the Confusion
<p>ZzzZZz wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Every time I start up X Windows, it doesn't respond.
I've looked into some
<br>FAQs and found out that because I have a Microsoft Wheel Mouse (2 button
<br>mouse with the scrolling wheel in the middle) I need to type the following
<br>before starting X Windows:
<p>mouseconfig --kickstart --device cua0
<p>However, when I type that, X Windows still doesn't respond. Am I supposed
to
<br>install or configure my mouse a certain way?
<p>Thanks in advance.
<p>-Z</blockquote>
<pre>--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
Henry V--Act 4 Scene 1
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From: "Dan Shackelford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:31:03 -0700
Is this perhaps a Windows only printer? I think it might be .. since it is
Oki PAGE .. I believe it uses a Windows GDI driver to create the output. Can
you boot in straight DOS, not DOS shell, and use the PRN command and it will
print? If it wont print then ... then you may have a printer that needs
Windows as a host to actually print.
Yosef Zlochower wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Gary I Kahn wrote:
>
>> > The printer light just blinks and nothing is printed. I tried
adjusting
>> > all options for the ljet4 (send EOF .....supress headers etc)
>> > (under printool) ; nothing seems to work.
>>
>> 1. Try printing to the printer under Windows, if you have it
>> available, to rule out a hardware problem.
>>
>> 2. Could you please be more specific about the blinking? Has
>> the printer finished its warmup cycle? Is it in the non-blinking
>> light stage before you attempt to print? Is the blinking fast or
>> slow? Slow is about once per second, and indicates that the
>> printer is receiving data. Fast blinking is noticeably more than
>> once per second, and indicates a problem. For me, the most
>> common problem has been the out-of-paper condition. Other than
>> that, I've had one paper-jam and a couple of instances of my not
>> having closed the paper drawer completely.
>>
>> I used the Red Hat Linux Print System Manager to configure my
>> printer under RH5.1 and RH6.0. Here's what I used to get it
>> running:
>>
>> Name: lp
>> Spool Directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp
>> File Limit in Kb: 0
>> Printer Device: /dev/lp0
>> Input Filter: *auto* - LaserJet4
>> Supress Headers is checked.
>>
>> On the Filter screen:
>> Printer Type: HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series
>> Resolution: 300x300
>> Paper Size: letter
>> Color Depth: default
>> Printing Options: 1 page per output page
>> Margins: 18 pts for each.
>>
>> Gary Kahn
>
>Sorry for not being specific. The blinking was slow and was due to the
printer
>recieving data. I did wait for the warmup cycle to be completed before
>attempting to print. My printer works fine under win 98 (both as an okipage
6e
>and as an hp 4).
>I tried the above settings, it
>still won't print.
>Any additional help would be appreciated
>
> Yosef
>
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From: the hork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
at.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,fido.ger.linux,maus.computer.linux
Subject: Re: Voodoo Banshee SuSE 6.0
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:16:05 +0200
Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:
[cut]
> failed dependencies:
> libNoVersion.so.1 is needed by Glide_V3-2.60-6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by Glide_V3-2.60-6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by Glide_V3-2.60-6
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by Glide_V3-2.60-6
> XFree86-VGA16 is needed by XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5
> libtel.so is needed by XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5
> libtk.so is needed by XFree86_3DFX-XF86Setup-3.3.3-5
>
> What shall I do???
> Please help. U R G E N T. Pleaaassseeee...
> Thanks in advance,
> Freddy
seems you got a driver for a glibc2 system you don't have.
try to get a driver matching your system. The other way is to upgrade
your system to a glibc2 built system.
regards
HORK
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From: "Andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV-Theater works?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:06:27 -0400
oh yeah, me again. forgot one thing: does the radio work?
Thanks,
Andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS: oh yeah, another thing. yes I am using outlook express
on a linux newsgruop..... ^_^
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking to get a tv tuner to replace my gimpy tv. I've been looking
and
> found that the Hauppauge cards work. However I read that some are not
fully
> functional yet (something to do with the 879's i2c or such). Just
> wondering if the WinTv Theater model works fine under linux (including
> remote). That remote would be handy :). also on a more general nature,
> how well does full screen mode work either in XFree86 or in framebuffer
mode
> when it's in high resolution (much higher than NTSC).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 (dual Celeron) ATA66-Controller?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:31:10 GMT
Hummm....where did you find a BP6? I've been looking for one but can
seem to find a place that carries them yet.
If you could let me know I would really appricated it.
As for ATA-66, my gut (and some articles I read recently) make note the
Linux does not as yet support the new protocol. HOWEVER.........the BP6
has a normal set of IDE controlers also......If you have problems
getting the ATA-66 controlers to work you may want to try using the
standard ones until development is complete.
(Just a note: You won't see much difference between the new 66 standard
and the previous 33 unless you are running a heavy server. Also be
aware that the new drives support the 66 protocol they don't always have
the ability to achieve that theoretic level, (e.g. a 5400 rpm drive
would have trouble supplying 66meg/s)
Suran wrote:
> Has someone experience with the ATA-66 Controller on
> Abits new dual Celeron-Board?
>
> ---
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
Henry V--Act 4 Scene 1
_____________________________________________________________
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SansAClue)
Subject: Re: Modem and kppp
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 05:39:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:12:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm Going to write to Cesar in Portuguese...
>�i C�sar,
>Ser� que voc� pode me dizer como se insere esse parametro para que o
>modem funcione?
>Antonio
>
>
Strictly as a public service, I am now Going To Write to Cesar in American
(with apologies to Garrett Morris...)
<hands cupped around mouth>
HEY CESAR, HOW DID YOU GET YOUR MODEM TO WORK???
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: support for radio ethernet
Date: 28 Jun 1999 22:35:43 -0700
"Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basant Rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : need to know if any radio-ethernet cards are supported on linux.
>
> I have no experience with this type of hardware myself. But I've
> recently been looking over the products made by Proxim, and they
> appear to have a hardware solution that should work with any ethernet
> card or OS. Apparently the RF device connects to the system's own
> ethernet card, thus no driver support is required by the OS.
>
> http://www.proxim.com/
The Breezenet hardware does the same, but that's not useful if you
want to carry a notebook computer around.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Binesh Bannerjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:15:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Bartek Golenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thats because Linux 2.0.x could not recognize SCO division table on a
: partition - you could always mount SCO floppies. There is an option in 2.2.x
: that will probably allow you to do this.
What option is that? (Upon further investigation I found this in the docs
>From Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt as of linux-2.2.9
> Bugs in the present implementation:
> - Coherent FS:
> - The "free list interleave" n:m is currently ignored.
> - Only file systems with no filesystem name and no pack name are
> recognized.
> (See Coherent "man mkfs" for a description of these features.)
> - SystemV Release 2 FS:
> The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which
> corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No
> support for this FS on hard disk yet.
So, it looks as tho the SysV FS doesn't support hard drives still...
What option are you talking about?
Binesh
: --
: Bartek Golenko
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Best modem for linux
Date: 28 Jun 1999 22:43:39 -0700
tivoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the best modem to get for linux? I want to make sure the
> drivers for it will be there.
Best Data 56SF: http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?Sku=10019884
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From: Norberto Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cmi8330 sound card
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:49:07 -0300
There is a mini HOW-TO written on the subject if you can't find it just
tell me, and i will send it to you. Look for it in ALTAVISTA....I found
it there...
Norberto
Gong Li wrote:
> Hi, has anybody got this sound card working in linux? I can't make it
> work.
>
> Gong
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From: Joshua Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI sound card setup ?'s
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:45:17 -0700
the hork wrote:
>
> Rob wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get my PCI sound card to work. The manual says it creative
> > labs Pro legacy pci compatible, and the suse hardware thing says it
> > supports that, so I've been trying to load it using the sb driver. I've
> > got
> >
> > alias sound sb
> > options sb io=0x240 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300
> >
> > in my conf.modules, and when I try to load it by using /sbin/modprobe
> > sb, it comes up with
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/sound.o invalid parameter parm_io
> > /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/sound.o insmod /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/soud.o
> > failed
> > /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/sound.o insmod sb failed
> >
> > I'm using Suse 6.1. What does that mean? I can't find parm_io anywhere.
> > Any help appreciated,
> > Rob.
>
> IMHO linux supports no pci sound card until now.
> try to get a d-level driver from creative lab's development web site.
>
> regards
> HORK
Hrm.... i guess thats an isa sound card that i'm listnin to mp3z on
huh..... =)
Check out alsa it has good support for pci soundcards...
I think that my sb pci 128 actually sounds better in linux.
--Joshua Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: the hork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:13:49 +0200
Janet Anderson wrote:
>
> I'm looking for drivers for my montego 64 pci sound card by turtle beach or
> some advice on how to set it up(you see I've been looking for a long time
[cut]
my suggestion:
look at http://freshmeat.net if someone recently wrote a driver.
(I have found a driver for my sb live! - was a link to creative lab's
delelopment pages).
Maybe there is a driver for your card anywhere available.
If this option fails, i have no idea at the moment. Pci sound cards are
IMHO not supported by my recent 2.2.* kernel.
cu
HORK
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Panasonic KXL-738A CDROM
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:48:18 +0100
I've got a Compal P120 that came with a Dell CD-rom and a Panasonic pcmcia card
that appears to be a KXL-D740 (scsi) adaptor. That works fine under Linux, so I
would imagine that yours should work OK too. I know I had to load the modules
in the right order. As I recall, the card is identified as a "Raven CD-note
SCSI" in /etc/pcmcia/config.
If you need anymore info, give me a shout, and I'll try and backtrack my steps!
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSe on Asus AMD K6-2 450Mhz 128K system
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:37:41 +0100
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, John Hagen wrote:
>I'm interested to know how you tell if DMA is operrational with my setup. I've
>got an AMD K6-2 400 sitting on an ASUS P5A. Is there command line utility that
>shows you this?
You should see it during bootup, when the screen fills with system messages! On
mine under 2.2 some of the lines read "DMA disabled (BIOS)" or something like
that. If you missed it type "dmesg |more" at a command prompt, and it will
write up most of the boot message a screenful at a time. You should be able to
see it there.
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mario Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to mount two floppy disk ?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 06:27:41 GMT
Thanks
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From: Patrick Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESS Maestro drivers?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:02:15 -0400
I read that Alan Cox was working on an ESS Maestro sound driver at
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/
Alan wrote on June 10th:
I get a lot of people with ESS maestro cards asking me about
the state of the Maestro driver.
Maestro.c in 2.2.9ac4 is most of a driver, it needs the
mixer writing and it needs fixing so the
DMA ring buffer works right. I've simply not had time to do
this. I don't expect to have time to
finish it in the near future either. Various people have
asked about taking it over - feel free but if
you do please let people on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
know so that we get one Maestro
project.
I have vmware running so testing a new kernel complies never crashes my
machine. Does anyone know the progress of this? ... I would really like
to try the new driver. Sound is the only thing keeping my Windows
partition around (I could use the disk space!)
Patrick Berge
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who)
Date: 28 Jun 1999 16:12:41 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> >counts for shift operations are in the C? register (ECX, CX, CL &c).
> >counts for the LOOP instruction are in ECX.
> >multiply results are in EDX,EAX.
> >dividends are also in EDX,EAX.
> >only EBX, EBP, ESI, EDI and ESP can be pointers.
>
> Some of this has changed. While you still can put the shift count
> in cl, you can put an immediate shift count now (like shrl $2,%eax). This
> feature was added on the 286, I think.
right, but a variable shift count needs to use the C-reg.
> Loop still needs to use %ecx; it's built into the instruction. But I've
> seen compilers substitute loop for a decl & jne, and the former can use
> any register.
>
> For mul/div, still use edx:eax (but that's a 64 bit dividend, wow :)
yes. for a multiplication in C of two 32 bit ints with 32 bit
product, mul requires eax as an arg and it clobbers edx even though C
never uses its value. the other arg can be pretty much any register
or pointer. similarly with division, you must clear edx (or
sign-extend eax for signed div) and load eax. this makes mul/div
fairly pricey on an i386.
/* foo.c */
int foo(
int x,
int y)
{
return x * y;
}
int bar(
int x,
int y)
{
return x / y;
}
compiles to
.file "foo.c"
# GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) (i586-cygwin32) compiled
by GNU C version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release).
# options passed: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fverbose-asm
# options enabled: -fdefer-pop -fomit-frame-pointer -fcse-follow-jumps
# -fcse-skip-blocks -fexpensive-optimizations -fthread-jumps
# -fstrength-reduce -fpeephole -fforce-mem -ffunction-cse
# -finline-functions -finline -fkeep-static-consts -fcaller-saves
# -freg-struct-return -fgcse -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt
# -fschedule-insns2 -fsjlj-exceptions -fcommon -fverbose-asm -fgnu-linker
# -fregmove -foptimize-register-move -fargument-alias -m80387 -mhard-float
# -mno-soft-float -mieee-fp -mfp-ret-in-387 -mschedule-prologue
# -mstack-arg-probe -mcpu=pentium -march=pentium
gcc2_compiled.:
___gnu_compiled_c:
.text
.align 4
.globl _foo
.def _foo; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
_foo:
movl 4(%esp),%eax
imull 8(%esp),%eax
ret
.align 4
.globl _bar
.def _bar; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
_bar:
movl 4(%esp),%eax
cltd
idivl 8(%esp)
ret
> And any register can be a pointer now, not just the ones you've
> listed.
this is good.
thanks for your input btw.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Brent Justice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 06:29:50 GMT
First when I tried to run the xsvga server all I got was a black screen and
I had to hit ctl-alt-del to terminate and reboot. Then when I did that it
wont boot now! It says insert boot diskette!! It set up 3 partions and I
tried setting each one on Active to boot to that partition but it still wont
boot now!
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